Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Azure Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Azure Cove (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cove
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
S side of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, was charted by BeAE on 11 February 1898 and named descriptively Baie d'Azur (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1903, Carte 5). Azur Bay (BA chart 1238, viii.1900). Azure Bay (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Baia dell' Azzurro (Gerlache, 1902a). Bahïa Azure (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.180). The cove was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57. Azure Cove (APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3572, 29.xi.1974). Bahïa Zapiola, so called by AAE after the Argentine patriot (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter Z).
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